Office Workers Syndrome is a group of symptoms commonly

found in office workers caused by unhealthy work habits.

Pujana P.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Chakarida Nukoolkit
Asst. Prof. Dr. Pornchai Mongkolnam

Diseases: musculoskeletal pain, headaches, insomnia, abnormal glucose

metabolism, obesity, type-II diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular
disease and cancer.

Proper Sitting Postur e

Sitting upright with th e head and nec k ver tically in -line with the torso.
Dynamic sitting
Allows or encourages the seated occupant to move.
Micro-br eaks
Avoid extended periods of continuous tasks by taking shor t breaks

Left :
Center :
Right :

http://www.ergohealthy.com/ergonomics-in-the-office/
http://www.buero-forum.de/en/ergonomics/sitting-and-standing/dynamic-sitting/
http://www.samsill.com/ergonomic-micro-break-tips

It is not easy for computer users to be aware of their sitting while

concentrating on their work.

Prolonged Sitting Detection

Posture Detection
Report & Alert

(Previous Study)

Data Mining Classification

Training Data Set & Model Building

Class: Still vs. Move
Body Joints: Head, Elbow Left, Elbow Right
Accuracy: 98.04%
Still

10s VDO Clip

Prolonged Sitting Detection

Move

Paliyawan, P., Nukoolkit, C., and Mongkoknam, P., 2014, Prolonged Sitting Detection for Office Workers Syndrome Prevention Using
Kinect, Proceedings of the International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information
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Technology 2014 (ECTI-CON 2014), Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, May 1417, pp. 1-6.

Posture Detection

Head Pitch Detection

Twisted Posture Detection
Sit-Stand Detection
Break Detection

Improper Postures
Micro-breaks

Base Posture = Initial Posture

Relative Change in the users postures
= Current posture - Initial posture

Posture Detection

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1. Pitch Detection

2. Twisted Posture Detection


  


 

 


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3. Sit-Stand Detection

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4. Break Detection

1 Meters
Away From Keyboard

Report & Alert

Current

Base

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Health Risk Level

Three levels of health risk are introduced
Lv0 or Green :
Lv1 or Yellow :
Lv2 or Red :

healthy state
caution state
unhealthy state

Applied to:
Prolonged Sitting
Pitch
Twisted Posture

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20 m

30 m

120 m

Prolonged Sitting
+1 / 30s

How Health Risk Leveling System work?

0

20 m

30 m

120 m

Prolonged Sitting
+1 / 30s

40

60

40
1m

-12 / 30s

240

60
3m

20 m

Pitch

-12 / 30s

240

+1 / 5s

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1m

3m

-5 / 5s

120
20 m

Twisted Posture
+1 / 5s

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12

-5 / 5s

120

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Total Health Risk Level

Total Risk Score

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Sample Data

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Total Health Risk Level

** Total Health Risk Level is represented by color, not numeric.

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 1. Monitor Screen and In-App Alarm

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1. Detailed Summary

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2. Short Summary

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3. Short Summary

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3. Posture Summary

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 4. Health Trend Summary

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Contact : Pujana P., Pujana.P@gmail.com

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